Rogers M. Smith
Encyclopedia
Rogers M. Smith is an American historian
, and Political Science professor at the University of Pennsylvania
.
, and from Harvard University
, with a Ph.D., in 1980.
He taught at Yale University
, from 1980 to 2001.
He received a Carnegie Corporation of New York “Scholar's Grant” in 2001-2003 to research a book to be entitled Civic Horizons: Achieving Democratic Citizenship in Modern America.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His work appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Western Political Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, Daedalus, Social Research, Yale Law Journal, the American Prospect, the Nation
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and Political Science professor at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
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Life
He graduated from Michigan State UniversityMichigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
, and from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, with a Ph.D., in 1980.
He taught at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, from 1980 to 2001.
He received a Carnegie Corporation of New York “Scholar's Grant” in 2001-2003 to research a book to be entitled Civic Horizons: Achieving Democratic Citizenship in Modern America.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His work appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Western Political Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, Daedalus, Social Research, Yale Law Journal, the American Prospect, the Nation
Awards
- 1999 Merle Curti AwardMerle Curti AwardThe Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author...
by the Organization of American HistoriansOrganization of American HistoriansThe Organization of American Historians , formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S...
, for Civic Ideals - 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist, for Civic Ideals
- 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award of the W. E. B. Du Bois InstituteW. E. B. Du Bois InstituteThe W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research is located at Harvard University and was established in 1969. It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University...
, for The Unsteady March